★
FOUNDED 1962
★
“It is a good thing to read the Declaration of Independence every Fourth of July; it is a good thing to talk of what Washington and his fellows did for us; but what counts most is how we live up to the lessons that we read or that we speak of.”
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
November 5, 1902
“The candidate is the candidate of a party; but if the president is worth his salt he is the president of the whole people.”
Little Rock, Arkansas
October 25, 1905
“No man is fit for control who does not possess intelligence, self-respect, and respect for the just rights of others.”
The Foes of Our Own Household
1917
“Not only should there be complete liberty in matters of religion and opinion, but complete liberty for each man to lead his life as he desires, provided only that in so he does not wrong his neighbor.”
Paris, France
April 23, 1910
“Power always brings with it responsibility. You cannot have power to work well without having so much power as to be able to work ill, if you turn yourselves that way.”
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
September 7, 1910
“On this day, the 30th of May, we call to mind the deaths of those who died that the nation might live, who wagered all that life holds dear for the great prize of death in battle, who poured out their blood like water in order that the mighty national structure raised by the fair-seeing genius of Washington, Franklin, Marshall, Hamilton and the other great leaders of the Revolution, great framers of the Constitution, should not crumble into meaningless ruins.”
Arlington, VA
May 30, 1902
“We are not to be excused if we fail to hold our public men to a rigid accountability if they fail, in their turn, to see that we have proper legislation and proper administration. No public man worth his salt will be other than glad to be held accountable in that fashion.”
San Francisco, California
May 14, 1903
“We can as little afford to tolerate a dishonest man in the public service as a coward in the army.”
Washington, DC
October 15, 1903
“The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.”
Letter to the Proceedings of the Congress of Constructive Patriotism
January 10, 1917
“There are good men and bad men of all nationalities, creeds and colors; and if this world of ours is ever to become what we hope some day it may become, it must be by the general recognition that the man’s heart and soul, the man’s worth and actions, determine his standing.”
Letter to Baron d’Estournelles De Constant
Oyster Bay, New York, September 1, 1903
“I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds.”
Oyster Bay, New York
July 7, 1915
“To sit home, read one’s favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men’s doing.”
The Outlook
December 21, 1895
★
Receive updates on latest commentary, and noteworthy news.
